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Title: Comments on the Taxonomic Status of Apodemus peninsulae, with Description of a New Subspecies from North China

Author: J. Knox Jones, Jr.

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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS
MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Volume 9, No. 8, pp. 337-346, 1 fig. in text, 1 table

August 15, 1956

Comments on the Taxonomic Status of
Apodemus peninsulae, with Description
of a New Subspecies from North China

BY

J. KNOX JONES, JR.

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE
1956

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, A. Byron Leonard,
Robert W. Wilson

Volume 9, No. 8, pp. 337-346, 1 fig. in text, 1 table
Published August 15, 1956

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas

PRINTED BY
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Comments on the Taxonomic Status of Apodemus peninsulae, with
Description of a New Subspecies from North China

BY

J. KNOX JONES, JR.

In the past several years the United States National Museum has received
a large number of mammals from central and southern Korea through the
auspices of the Commission on Hemorrhagic Fever of the Armed Forces
Epidemiological Board. Among these Korean collections are more than a
hundred specimens of a murine rodent originally described as "_Micromys
speciosus peninsulae_" by Oldfield Thomas but currently placed in the
genus _Apodemus_. In attempting to ascertain the specific relationships
of this mouse I have examined, through the generosity of Dr. David H.
Johnson, Acting Curator of Mammals, most of the other Oriental specimens
of the subgenus _Sylvaemus_ in the U. S. National Museum and it is on
this combined material that the follo